Wolf Family

Affirmations

I believe in the power of affirmations. Know, though, that not all affirmations are positive ones.  Anything that you tell yourself is an affirmation and will change your life. Be sure you think and tell yourself positive things if you desire to enjoy positive, happy experiences.  Here are some good examples you might like to use, or create your own.

Random Positive Thoughts

Wolf Spirit

 All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~ Christian Lous Lange

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
~ Nikita Khrushchev

 I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
~ Jodi Picoult

 

 “Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”
― Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

Peace by Harmony

It has come to me that perhaps the fastest way to PEACE is not by looking for PEACE, that it is LIVING IN HARMONY!! World PEACE is a very overwhelming thing to create. In order to have PEACE in the world, each and every person must first have PEACE within their own heart. If you have one grain of anger, hate, frustration, to name just a few, then you do not have total PEACE within you, and we can not experience World PEACE until EVERYONE has only PEACE within them. 

However, even if we still have some of those issues (anger, hate, frustration, envy, etc.) that I know we are all working at removing from our lives, we can still choose to LIVE IN HARMONY with those around us, and choose to not spend time with those that bring out that other stuff. Even if we spend time with them and do not feel totally loving and peaceful towards them, we can still choose to spend the time together HARMONIOUSLY! (For example: some things my mother says to me, so ways she treats me, hurt me... yet I choose to not fight, to just let it go.... to see it as her issues, and to get along rather than argue.... Harmony. There are so many other ways my 89 year old mom is wonderful, so I can choose to focus on them.)

I believe that if I choose to live in HARMONY with someone I do not know well or understand his or her ways (i.e., perhaps a store clerk of a different color, nationality, religious belief, etc.) then I put out HARMONY vibrations into the world, even though I may not get along with my sister, for example. By practicing HARMONY with all I meet, with all I live near, perhaps one day I can enjoy HARMONY with those I may choose to remove from my life at this time.... and by LIVING A LIFE OF HARMONY, I believe I help to create WORLD PEACE!!

Namasté

Alice G. Price

 

 

If you believe in fighting for peace, remember....

I Choose.....

I am working at changing my house keeping habits and at releasing much old 'stuff' from my home.  I am doing what I can to clean up this mess I have been living it, I want my home to be something to be proud of again like it once was.  I used to enjoy having friends over, now I live in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) and I want to be able to have people over again.

 

I choose to change my mind, to make it one that believes in prosperity so I can easily and joyfully release the old beliefs that no longer work for me as well as the old 'stuff' in my home that I no longer use or need. 

I release the old and I welcome the new!!!

 I do this in Peace, Ease, Harmony, Love & Joy!!

This is Sweet!

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell.  He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. 

 

As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy. 

 

"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies." 

 

"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "These puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money." 

 

The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer.  "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?" 

 

"Sure," said the farmer.And with that he let out a whistle. "Here, Dolly!" he called. Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. 

 

The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight. As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse.

Slowly another little ball appeared, this one noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up... 

 

"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt. 

 

The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy.  He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would." 

 

With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands." 

 

With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and picked up the little pup.  Holding it carefully he handed it to the little boy.

 

"How much?" asked the little boy.

 

 "No charge," answered the farmer, "There's no charge for love." 

 

 

 

The world is full of people who need someone who understands.

Affirmations

 I recently did a post titled Carfirmations.  I keep my Carfirmations CD in the CD player in my truck and every time I drive anywhere I get to listen to my dear friend Chris Madsen playing music while he shares positive affirmations and quotes, also on the CD there are songs he wrote and is singing. Of  course, they too are positive, spiritual songs.  I am so much enjoying listening to this each time I go anywhere, and it always brightens my day.

 

Inspirational Bits

Wise Cherokee Proverb

Which wolf do you choose to feed??
I choose to feed the good wolf!!

Happy New Year

The time is tick-tick-ticking away.... slowly heading towards midnight. The year

is coming to an end along with this day.

The clock on my computer says it is 11:11pm, a special time to be sure, and it tells me just how close we are getting to that moment in time when this year will end and the new year will begin, filled with hope and promise for a better, happier, healthier, slimmer, trimmer, more love filled and joy filled year of greater prosperity. Yes, we all pin our hopes on the new year, wanting it to be better than the old one. There is a way to insure that it is better... change the way we think and we change our experiences in life.

One sure way of changing our lives and making them better, happier, richer, etc. is to practice gratitude.

Just take a moment here and there to count your blessings.


For everything, great and small, give thanks.


I have so very much to be grateful for and I take time each day to thank God for the many many things I have to be thankful for. Some are as simple as:

- I am grateful for my eyes as they allow me to see the beauty that surrounds me.
- I am grateful for my ears, for with them I get to hear music, laughter, birds singing, and all other things that I can enjoy &/or learn from.
- I am grateful for my feet and for my legs as they make it possible for me to stand and to walk, to drive my truck and my trike.
- I am grateful for my hands and my wrists and my arms. They make it possible for me to care for myself and others, to pick up my food and feed myself, to pet my animals and to take care of them all.

Having been in a crash this year, I am even more thankful now than I was before for my hands & wrists. Having had the left wrist shattered and the right one sprained I have come to really appreciate just how much we depend on the use of our hands for great and small things every day. Just for a day try not using your hands, or even think of each little thing you use your hands for and notice just how wonderful a creation they really are.... be grateful for them. Slowly I am getting the use of my left hand back, but it is still unknown if I will ever get full use of it back. I am so grateful that I can again type with it.

I also think of the 'outside' things for which I am grateful, such as though not limited to:

- I am grateful for my home. It is cold outside tonight and I am blessed to have a home to live in and a fire going in the stove to keep my home warm and comfortable for me and my animals.
- I am grateful for each and every one of my animals: Mewsic (cat); Grace Hawk (rabbit); Sheri, Daisy, Smudge & Charlie (chinchillas); DW (Indian Ringneck Parrot/Parakeet; Friday & Miracle (Pacific Parrotlets); Angel, Stud Muffin, Tiki & Billy Bob (Cockatiels). They give me a reason to get out of bed in the morning, and to come home again each time I leave.
- I am grateful for my computers... for oh so many reasons.
- I am grateful for the food I eat as it nourishes my body.
- I am grateful for the clothes I wear.

And I can go on and on and on... but I won`t just now.

I had many sad times in 2010, and I also had many happy times, many things to be grateful for. I know that I am truly blessed in many ways. I look forward to the coming year, knowing that it too is filled with many things I will be grateful for. It is filled with much excitement, joy, love, prosperity, abundance, friendship and.... more.

As the last second of 2010 and the first second of 2011 approach, I wish you all much to be grateful for. I wish you all the very best of everything in this wonderful year and beyond.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I look forward to seeing you again throughout the coming year.

Important Growth Process

Good morning. At this time on a Sunday morning I am usually at my Spiritual Centre. The service will be starting at 11:00am, and regardless of what time it says this is posted, it is now 10:54am. I was just so sore this morning, as I have been most of the time lately, so I took some pain meds and crawled back into bed with my laptop. Not that being in bed helps a lot, but seemed more inviting this morning than my chair did, so here I am. There are a few things I've been wanting to talk about lately, so here goes one at least.

I want to clear up some 'stuff' that I've talked about here in the past, to do with Rev. Dale and Hannah. I don't mean to make them look bad, because they are not. The Centre is a very wonderful, special place that I love dearly and where God is most definitely at work full time. You see, there are many 'opportunities for growth' in my life (in everyone's life, I'm sure), and what I often talk about here is part of my growth path. I 'go through stuff' and end up talking about it here sometimes as I am processing it in my mind. While Rev. Dale and Hannah both do "push my buttons" or "challenge me" a lot, they are also the greatest opportunities for my growth.

In the past, I have often just walked away from people when 'challenges arose'. I've never really known just how to work through stuff like that, and never wanted to argue but didn't know any other way. With Dale & Hannah, I'm learning to go to them and talk things through... eventually. It takes me a while still, to process what I am thinking and what I am feeling so I can talk to them about it, and without anger or accusation.

Yesterday, I spoke to Hannah about the 'Song Thing'. For those of you that don't read here often, I wrote a Treatment (specific kind of prayer) in the form of a poem. When I read it to Hannah, she liked it a lot and asked for a copy of it. I gave her one, happily. Then not long after that, she told me that she had written music for it, a 4 part harmony, and would be preforming it at our Centre, hopefully for Rev. Sheila's Installation Ceremony (being installed officially as a staff minister). She also named the people who would be preforming it with her. I ended up feeling hurt and left out of it all because my poem was taken away from me and given to others to have all the fun with. Well, that is the way it felt, but truly not the way it is.

It is an honor really, to have my poem put to music. Yes, I want to be one of the singers, but I am not a great singer. My strengths and talents are not in the singing, but they are in writing, in public speaking, and in acting.

For over 2 years, I was the Congregational Song Leader at my Spiritual Centre, and though it was hard work, I loved doing it. This fall, I was asked to step down from that position and let others take it over, others who are better singers than I. It has been a challenge for me, a hard time to go through. You see, I've never felt very important, never felt 'special', yet as the Congregational Song Leader I did feel special. Every Sunday I stood up in front of everyone and they depended on me to lead them in song... 3 songs to be exact. Occasionally I even 'entertained' with a solo piece. I felt very special indeed. Now, on Sundays I am not special, I am again just part of the congregation, just one of the many. This is more 'stuff' for me to work through, for me to grow from. It is actually an opportunity, though it has not felt like such. Many of the greatest opportunities don't, you know, yet if we can see the growth opportunity in the issue, it is a very positive thing. It has taken me awhile, and now finally I am starting to see the opportunity in this issue, and it is a big one. It is up to me to make myself feel special even as just one of the congregation... every single one there is special just as they are without doing anything extra. It's 'funny' how we can see the people around us as wonderful and special while we can't quite see ourselves as anything much at all.

Hannah and I are not what you would call 'close, intimate friends', we don't 'hang out together' or anything like that... and yet I do love her dearly and very much value her in my life. I am learning so much from her and my life is being greatly enriched by this relationship. I am learning, among other things, how to communicate with people. When there is a 'problem', one Hannah has with me, or one I have with Hannah, we talk about it. Sometimes it takes awhile for the one bothered to talk to the other one about the problem, but we do get around to it 'when the time is right'. Sometimes, like with the poem/song, it's not that we expect, or maybe even want, things to be changed or 'fixed', but it's just that we need to be heard. Being heard, as it turns out, is so very important!! Wow!!

In an email, Hannah said she wanted to get together with me one time soon to talk about something. I replied that this would be good and that I wanted to talk to her too, about this song/poem thing. I didn't say a lot about it, but did say a little about how I was feeling. She phoned me the next day, after reading that email, and was very upset. She was afraid I wouldn't want her to use my poem. If I had not been happy and agreeable, she would have forfeited her song, let it go rather than use my poem without me wanting her to. I assured her that, no, that was not my intent at all, that I just needed to say something about how I was feeling. I just needed to be heard. She was very happy about that as she was not sure we could remain friends if I didn't let her use my poem. I was a bit taken aback by that, but guess it's part of her growth and how she was feeling at the time, so that's fair. Anyway, having told Hannah what I was feeling, and talking about it all, I now feel so much better about it all. She really loves my writing and wants me to build on my strengths, one of which is not singing. Through talking to her I came to realize the bit I talked about earlier, about feeling important/unimportant and that being tied in with the singing/not singing stuff.

With Dale, I am learning to stand up and say what I think/feel more and more all the time, rather than just shutting down and holding it all inside. Some days her really aggravates me... and as much as it 'pisses me off', there is a part of me that knows it's for my greater good.

So yes, Dale and Hannah are great growing opportunities for me... and I believe I also am for them. I know I 'push buttons' for them too, and it is a chance for them to grow too. As I learn to communicate and deal with issues with these two people, I know I will be better at doing so with others as well... and when I meet my 'Mr. Right' I know our relationship will be all the better for my having learned so much from Rev. Dale and Hannah.

Personal/Spiritual growth is not always comfortable, and yet it is always good. I am ever so grateful for it happening in my life, and for the parts Rev. Dale and Hannah each play in this. I am grateful for the Okanagan Centre for Spiritual Living. I am grateful for knowing God.

I've Got a JOB!! or a Mission that pays?

I'm really happy and excited to announce that I have just gotten a job/career/mission with a pay cheque. Haha. I have not had a paying job in many years because of the problems I have with my back and depression, but this one should work out. The owner of the company, Ray, goes to my Spiritual Centre and he knows I've got back problems and depression issues, and he's okay with that. On days I am in too much pain to get out and go on appointments, I can do phone work and emails... at home so I can do it laying down if need be, or work a bit and rest, work a bit and rest.

What I will be doing is helping to reduce the use of paper in advertising, while helping store & restuarant owners reduce the cost of their advertising and making it easier for the consumer to find information on products and sales. Want to know what a certain restaurant has on their menu, or for that days special? Traveling and want to find a good restaurant that serves steaks? or Chinese food? Go to your computer, or your cell phone that connects to the internet, and bring up dininginbc.com. Wa Laa... You click on the name of the town, look at the list of restaurants and choose which ones to take a closer look at. Simple as that. For other products, greenflyers.com.

I believe I will enjoy this work, be doing something good for the health of the planet, and help small business owners to save some money... all while enjoying myself. How's that for great?

I am grateful for this bundle of opportunities.